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FRONTIERSMAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does frontiersman mean? 

FRONTIERSMAN (noun)
  The noun FRONTIERSMAN has 1 sense:

1. a man who lives on the frontierplay

  Familiarity information: FRONTIERSMAN used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FRONTIERSMAN (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A man who lives on the frontier

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

backwoodsman; frontiersman; mountain man

Hypernyms ("frontiersman" is a kind of...):

pioneer (one of the first colonists or settlers in a new territory)

Instance hyponyms:

Boone; Daniel Boone (an American pioneer and guide and explorer (1734-1820))

Carson; Christopher Carson; Kit Carson (United States frontiersman who guided Fremont's expeditions in the 1840s and served as a Union general in the American Civil War (1809-1868))

Crockett; David Crockett; Davy Crockett (United States frontiersman and Tennessee politician who died at the siege of the Alamo (1786-1836))


 Context examples 


I'm a frontiersman from the extreme edge of the Knowable, and I feel quite out of place when I leave my study and come into touch with all you great, rough, hulking creatures.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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